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Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy statement (MTBPS) 2017: public hearings
1 Nov 2017
Cosatu submitted that there was no meaningful plan to arrest the collapse of the economy and the looting of the state, and to spur economic growth to create jobs. Unemployment had nearly doubled since 2014 to a real rate of 36.2%. More than R100 billion of the state’s trillion rand ...
Finance Standing Committee
2017 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement: Parliamentary Budget Office briefing
31 Oct 2017
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) appeared before the joint committees of Finance and Appropriations (National Assembly and National Council of Provinces) to give a post Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) analysis.
The PBO noted that performance of key macroeconomic variables over the past five years has not been impressive. The ...
Finance Standing Committee
Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2017: Minister in the Presidency & Minister of Finance briefing
26 Oct 2017
The Minister in the Presidency together with the Minister of Finance, and National Treasury gave presentations on the 2017 Mandate Paper and the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement.
The Minister in the Presidency explained that the purpose of the Mandate Paper is to function as a shorter-term instrument of national planning, ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament 2016/ Annual Report: Acting Secretary to Parliament briefing; Election of Co-Chairperson representing NCOP
25 Oct 2017
The Executive Authority, together with the management team of Parliament, briefed the Joint Standing Committee on Parliament’s annual report for the 2016/17 financial year.
The Committee was satisfied with the nature and spirit of the engagement with the top management of Parliament, and appreciated the presence and involvement of the ...
Finance Standing Committee
Pre-MTBPS briefing by Parliamentary Budget Office
24 Oct 2017
The Standing Committees on Finance and Appropriations together with the Select Committees on Finance and Appropriations were briefed by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the pre-Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS). The briefing was meant to assist Members in identifying focus areas in relation to the MTBPS presentation by ...
NCOP Finance
Committee Oversight Report on Gauteng
18 Oct 2017
The Select Committee on Finance met to consider and adopt the Report on its Oversight visit to Gauteng. It was noted that the report provided a very good picture of what is happening in those metros, and set a benchmark on how to engage with other metros before the fifth ...
NCOP Appropriations
CASP, Ilima/Letsema, Land Care Programme Conditional Grants performance: hearing; with Minister
17 Oct 2017
National Treasury and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) presented on the provincial agriculture grants. According to Treasury, the purpose of the Comprehensive Agricultural Support programme (CASP) was to facilitate agricultural development by targeting beneficiaries of land reform, restitution and redistribution, and other black producers who had acquired ...
Joint Rules
Principle of a ruling during the joint sitting on 22 November 2016; Commencement of the Review of the Joint Rules
27 Sep 2017
The joint sub-committee on the review of the Joint Rules met to consider proposed amendments to Chapters 1 to 2A, and to consider the principles of a ruling during a joint sitting. The intention was to ensure Chapters 1 and 2A were concluded before the end of the year, especially ...
NCOP Appropriations
Committee Report on Study Tour to Malaysia; Fourth Term Committee Programme
13 Sep 2017
The Committee discussed and approved its study tour report on the visit to Malaysia.
Members had an overall positive and good impression of their visit to Malaysia and felt that it was a conducive and a high level engagement.
The Committee received a briefing on its draft Fourth Term Programme. ...
NCOP Appropriations
Division of Revenue Bill: FFC submission
12 Sep 2017
The FFC told the Committee that it had focused on urban areas for the current year, after focusing on the rural areas in the previous year. It was unclear if the SA economic growth pattern was pro-poor. The SA workforce was predominantly urban-based. Inequality was high in the metros. Improved ...